Marion Anstis
{{short description|Australian herpetologist}}
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Marion Anstis is an Australian herpetologist. Her work focuses on frogs and Tadpoles found in Australia.
Career
Anstis was a music teacher for 31 years before retiring in 2001. Before her retirement, she published 11 papers in scientific journals.{{cite web |title=Dr Marion Anstis |url=https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/collections/natural-science/herpetology/dr-marion-anstis/ |website=The Australian Museum |accessdate=17 December 2018 |language=en}}
In 2002, she published a book called Tadpoles of South-Eastern Australia which won a Whitley Award.{{cite web |title=Marion Anstis |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/throsby/marion-anstis/5261116 |website=Radio National |accessdate=17 December 2018 |language=en-AU |date=14 February 2014}} Anstis published a children's book, Frogs and Tadpoles of Australia in 2007.{{cite web |title=Frogs and tadpoles of Australia |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34429345?q&sort=holdings+desc&_=1545137820972&versionId=45103159+209380444+250386288 |website=National Library of Australia |accessdate=18 December 2018 |language=English |date=2007}}
She submitted her book, Tadpoles and Frogs of Australia as her PhD thesis at Newcastle University in 2012.{{cite book |last1=Anstis |first1=Marion |title=Tadpoles and frogs of Australia |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/876663208 |via=Worldcat |accessdate=18 December 2018 |language=English |date=2012|oclc=876663208 }} It was then published in 2013 by New Holland Publishers.{{cite web |title=Tadpoles and frogs of Australia |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6391350 |website=National Library of Australia |publisher=New Holland Publishers |accessdate=18 December 2018 |date=2013}} It won her another Whitley Award in 2014.{{cite web |title=rzsnsw1 {{!}} Whitley Award Winners |url=http://www.rzsnsw.org.au/whitley-award-winners |website=Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales |accessdate=18 December 2018 |language=en}}
She received grants from the Australian Biological Resources Study in 1999 and in 2006-7 and from WWF in 2003. She was shortlisted for a Eureka Prize in 2003.
A genus of West Australian frog, Anstisia, was named in honor of her in 2022.{{Cite journal |last1=Webster |first1=Grant N. |last2=Bool |first2=Ian |date=2022-06-14 |title=A new genus for four myobatrachid frogs from the South Western Australian Ecoregion |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5154.2.2 |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=5154 |issue=2 |pages=127–151 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.2 |pmid=36095631 |s2cid=249699025 |issn=1175-5334|doi-access=free }}
Bibliography
- Tadpoles of South-Eastern Australia (2002)
- Frogs and Tadpoles of Australia (2007)
- Tadpoles And Frogs Of Australia (2013)
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Category:University of Newcastle (Australia) alumni
Category:Australian herpetologists
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